1:17:08
"They call it black bottom, a new twister
1:17:11
"It's sure got them and, oh, sister
1:17:13
"They clap their hands
and do a raggedy trot
1:17:16
"Hot!
1:17:20
"Old fellows with lumbago
and young fellows away they go
1:17:24
"They jump right in
and give it all that they've got"
1:17:29
Then one night something happened.
Dame Fortune showed her face.
1:17:34
The star got sick and I was told to go on
in her place.
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But she recovered.
1:17:53
Oh, well.
1:17:54
"Black bottom, a new rhythm
1:17:56
"When you spot them, you go with them
1:17:59
"That do that black, black, black bottom
1:18:01
"You won't be blue
when you have got them
1:18:03
"If you do that black, black, black,
black bottom all day
1:18:11
"But finally I got an offer to sing
in New York
1:18:14
"And I wired, 'I'm on my way,'
1:18:18
"I had visions that this would be
1:18:21
"A fabulous, famous café
1:18:25
"Filled with high society
1:18:28
"Elegant and spruce
1:18:31
"And I pictured me
1:18:33
"The epitome of a very chic chanteuse
1:18:41
"Peanuts
1:18:47
"Through every city,
town and country lane
1:18:49
"You'll hear him sing
his plaintive little strain
1:18:52
"And as he goes by, to you he'll say"
1:18:55
Sing "Melancholy Baby".
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"Peanuts